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Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure

82% positive of 289 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Wanderlost Interactive.

About the game

What if you combine the best of story-driven RPGs with the strategic decision-making of cardgames? Dawncaster was created to answer that question, containing over 1100 handcrafted cards and over 100 unique challenges designed by veterans of the cardgame genre.

Tagged by players

  • Deckbuilding
  • Class-Based
  • Card Battler
  • Card Game
  • RPG
  • Roguelike Deckbuilder
  • Strategy
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • Roguelite
  • Choices Matter
  • Fantasy
  • Perma Death

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    I'm obsessed. I have both mobile and desktop versions and switch between both. They facilitate this with a unity cloud save, which is admittedly a bit clunky, but it works and the game is so great you won't care.

    92 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This is a close call regarding the new player experience. I can't recommend the game to ccg-newbies in any way as it is content wise overwhelming and lacks lots of qol. There are tons of events and keywords that are not explained properly ingame, so you have to work with a wiki. Even for a ccg-veteran like me this is pretty annoying. The game itself is great, though, so it is still a thumbs up for me inspite of…

    9.5 h played when written. 7 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I love deckbuilders!! Unfortunately, Dawncaster has yet to earn my affection. Maybe I need to give it more time and effort, but it shouldn't take 15 hours for me to start appreciating its schtick. This game is very, very bloated. Some people praise its expansive legion of cards, but there are far too many cards that don't do much of anything, particularly in the first half of a run. The RPG element is a marketing…

    16 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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